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George (hatched approximately 1869) is an American lobster owned briefly by the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in New York City.Captured in December 2008, he was released back into the wild in January 2009.
Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps. Around the year 2000, owing to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded. [86]
It attracts 500,000 visitors per year. [2] Contrary to popular belief, this is not actually the "World's Largest Lobster" as that title went to the Big Lobster sculpture in Kingston, South Australia, until 2015 when Qianjiang , Hubei, China built a 100-tonne lobster/crayfish.
A fifth generation fisherman who caught a giant lobster in the Gulf of Maine on May 30, reckoned the crustacean was around 100 years old and could quite possibly have met the previous four ...
The town is home to the famous Parlee Beach and is known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western entrance to the town is a 90-ton sculpture called The World's Largest Lobster. [2]
It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, true lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, [3] or Maine lobster. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It can reach a body length of 64 cm (25 in), and a mass of over 20 kilograms (44 lb), making it not only the heaviest crustacean in the world, but also the heaviest of all living arthropod species.
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